Star Trek: Discover showrunner Bryan Fuller has some interesting responses and teases about the January 2017 debuting TV series during the Q & A portion of the recent Star Trek Discovery Television Critics Association (TCA) panel.

The below 5 revelations build on the 15 others teases Fuller revealed; making it a nice round 20 things we know about Star Trek Discovery.

Here are the 5 newest tidbits about the show.

“There’s an incident, an event, in the history of Starfleet that has been talked about (in previous Star Trek shows), but never fully explored.”

Section 31 is not directly involved in that incident/event, “but that’s not to say that might not have some marble through the meat of our season.”

The Discovery ship design is still a work in progress, he said, but it will feature elements of illustrator Ralph McQuarrie’s Star Trek: Phase II designs, along with those of 1970s-era race cars, Lamborghinis and James Bond vehicles.

“She’s not a central part of the show,” Fuller said of Amanda Grayson, Spock’s human mother, “but we love that character.”

It’s conceivable that Discovery could feature bridge crew characters from TOS, but for the moment he’s “digging” what he’s go with the new characters and not thinking that far ahead.

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